Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 17
Ratings are decided by trained examiners who follow published rules, not by the film makers, and not by guessing.
Who acts: trained examiners · What happens: decide, train, follow, publish, not guess · To what, where: Ratings, published rules
This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trained examiners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ratings | rating | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | aux:pass |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 examiners | case |
| 5 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 examiners | amod |
| 6 | examiners | examiner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decided | obl:agent |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 follow | nsubj |
| 8 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 examiners | acl:relcl |
| 9 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rules | amod |
| 10 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 follow | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 makers | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 makers | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 makers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 makers | det |
| 15 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makers | compound |
| 16 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decided | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 guessing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 guessing | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 guessing | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 guessing | mark |
| 21 | guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 decided | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present · passive | trained examiners | Ratings | by the film makers | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | train | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | follow | present | trained examiners | published rules | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 4 | publish | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not guess | gerund | trained examiners not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:057-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist.lesson:17.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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